Agentic AI can be given access to digital public infrastructure only after they pass a security check

New Delhi, Sept. 22 -- In the short time since the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident happened, I have written not one but two articles about it. In August, I pointed out that this incident was evidence tha... Read More

Learning on the job is crucial for certain professions but AI threatens to automate it away

New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- In a post earlier this month, mathematician Terence Tao described a recent incident at the frontier of his field. He spoke of how, just days after a young mathematician named St... Read More

Thinking of AI agents as digital humans is convenient but we mustn't take this analogy too far

New Delhi, Sept. 8 -- Of the many articles written after the OpenAI-HuggingFace incident late last month, one by Dwarkesh Patel in which he referred to it as the rise and fall of agent 'civilisations'... Read More

India is an inventive country, yet too many innovations die prematurely. Let's prevent that

New Delhi, Sept. 1 -- The Simputer was the first genuinely original computer that India built. As the legal advisor to the project, I was lucky to own one of its first colour units off the production ... Read More

Why guardrails and constitutions aren't enough to stop rogue AI-and what may actually work instead

New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- In July 2026, the UK's AI Safety Institute (AISI) realized that an agent it had tasked with completing a software-security exercise had tried to social-engineer its way to the so... Read More

OpenAI copyright case: the court ruling gave the company relief but doesn't relieve the AI industry

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- In recent months, there have been more than a few court rulings on the copyright implications of training artificial intelligence (AI) models. Last month, the Regional Court of M... Read More

Are open-weight AI models like Kimi available for anyone to use? Not quite. Here's why

New Delhi, Aug. 4 -- Late last month, Moonshot AI released the weights for Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter artificial intelligence (AI) model so advanced that it only lags the very best models from ... Read More

India's order against Bitchat defies logic-and it's time to draw a clear line on software bans

At 23, July 28 -- 16 on the night of 23 July, a nodal officer at the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) issued a takedown order to GitHub, giving the company just three hours to comply. Whi... Read More

AI in medicine: model makers need a Marketing 101 lesson-focus on what customer need must be met

New Delhi, July 21 -- A surprising number of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in the radiology space focus on 'segmentation'-the process of tracing the outline of an organ or tumour on a scan. ... Read More

The World Cup's controversial tech-assisted referee decisions presage a rise in techno-cynicism

New Delhi, July 14 -- Fourteen minutes into the Fifa World Cup group-stage football match between Qatar and Switzerland, the referee awarded Switzerland a penalty kick. Two Swiss players looked margin... Read More

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